Buddleja araucana is endemic to the semi-deserts and steppes of Patagonia from southern Mendoza to Río Negro and Neuquen provinces in Argentina and adjacent Chile. The species was first described and named by Philippi in 1873 it was introduced to cultivation by the British gardener and plant collector Harold Comber[1] as a form B. globosa in 1925.
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binomial authority
Rodolfo Amando Philippi
class
Magnoliopsida
division
Flowering plant
family
Scrophulariaceae
genus
Buddleja
kingdom
Plant
order
Lamiales
synonym
*Buddleja nappii (Lorentz), *Buddleja globosa var. araucana (Phil.) Reiche)
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